Aug 2, 2020
The Trollenberg Terror (The Crawling Eye, 1958)
"Cute little things, aren't they?"
"Yeah. I'm gonna throw a bomb at that one - you watch on the screen, see what happens."
#The Trollenberg Terror#The Crawling Eye#1958#films i done watched#british cinema#horror film#creature feature#jimmy sangster#Quentin Lawrence#forrest tucker#Laurence Payne#Jennifer Jayne#janet munro#warren mitchell#Frederick Schiller#Andrew Faulds#Stuart Saunders#Colin Douglas#Derek Sydney#So like quite a few mid 50s Sci fi and thriller films‚ this has its origins in a British TV serial. Like many of those others‚ that serial#Is now considered completely lost. That's a real shame because I really feel like a direct comparison here could be really interesting.#This film fudges quite a few moments and leaves some gaping plot holes as well as essentially dropping a major telepathy subplot about#Half way through; would the series version‚ with roughly double the running time‚ have ironed out these creases? Did the change of focus#From psychic battle to firebombing feel more fluid with a slower development? Ho hum. Otherwise‚ this is still a great deal of fun. It#Isn't as polished or as timeless as the similar serial adaptations Hammer was doing at the time (ie. Quatermass and The Abominable Snowman)#But it's eager and it's willing‚ even if the effects are pretty woeful in places. In particular‚ there's a miniature effect towards the#Conclusion which has to be one of the very worst of its type: but if anything this just adds to the endearingly naive feel of the whole#Thing. Adorable. Well‚ as adorable as a film with multiple beheadings can be...
